Empire Boulevard, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Empire Boulevard in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against major corridors. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Empire Boulevard in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (66) and tree cover (89). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Empire Boulevard name residential noise than any other category, 584 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of major corridors. Across every category, 2,350 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 454 reports, and heat and hot water with 257. Reports on Empire Boulevard span 85 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,687 homes on file, that is about 139 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 194 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 211 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 197 more, and structure for 115. City housing records put 1,687 homes in 159 residential buildings on Empire Boulevard, 40 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 18 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Empire Boulevard holds about 11 homes.
Reported crashes on Empire Boulevard have injured 204 people since 2021.
Among major corridors, Empire Boulevard ranks 26 on traffic safety and 7 on housing. That 7 on housing puts Empire Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, cleanliness sits at 25 and parking at 12. Against every street in the city, Empire Boulevard ranks 74 on food nearby and 73 on transit. Empire Boulevard ranks 89 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 190 major corridors make up the band Empire Boulevard is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Empire Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 66.
About 56% of the 1,687 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 943 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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